Thanks For The Memories The Top Five Conservative Crazy Of 2011

November 23, 2011

Bill Scher

What am I thankful for this year? I am thankful the conservative movement has stopped trying to pretend to be something that they are not.

Instead of masquerading as “compassionate conservatives” who want “clear skies,” “personal retirement accounts,” protect Medicare” and “tax relief” for all, today’s conservative just lays it on the table:

Tax the poor. Deregulate the rich. Drill Baby Drill. Filibuster the jobs bills. And to hell with Social Security and Medicare.

Before we enter the sweeps month of the “GOP 2012” reality TV show — when the crazy will be turned up to 11 — let’s pause before Thanksgiving, and give thanks for the many wonderful crazy moments conservatives have shared with us so far this year, so we all know exactly what conservatives would do to America if given the chance.

“So Be It.” One month into his speakership, John Boehner lets us know — with inaccurate numbers, of course, — what he feels about having our government help create jobs: “In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. If some of those jobs are lost, so be it. We’re broke.”

Republican debate audience cheers hypothetical death of uninsured person. Life, shmife. In the 1990s, conservatives claimed to have ideas about how to extend health insurance to everyone. President Obama accepted one of them: the individual mandate to purchase private insurance. Instead of thanking him, conservatives abandon all pretense of wanting people to receive health care, and dream of the day when Social Darwinism will rid the planet of the scourge of the uninsured.“We are the 53%.” In response to call that millionaires contribute more in taxes to cut the deficit, conservatives — including several presidential candidates — instead insist that the real problem is 47% of Americans currently do not earn enough to pay net federal income taxes. And proceed to mock them.

A mass refusal by the public to watch Donald Trump on TV will deprive him of big ratings, which he routinely uses to create a false impression of widespread popularity.

About Bill Scher

Bill Scher is the Online Campaign Manager at Campaign for America's Future, and the executive editor of LiberalOasis.com. He is the author of Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America, a regular contributor to Bloggingheads.tv and host of the LiberalOasis Radio Show weekly podcast. He has opinion articles that have been published by the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Omaha World-Herald, and has made appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR among other TV and radio outlets.